Holy Sh...,

with such a modern ship going down, it must have been a terrible damage. What I don`t get, why it lies on that side, the damage seems to be on the other side of the ship and now is above the water. Could of course possibly be, that there are even bigger holes on the submerged side.

How they managed to run aground is a mystery to me too, they should have the most modern navigation systems on board. These reefs aren`t there since yesterday, I bet.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16558910

3 confirmed dead, 69 still missing, death toll will surely rise. So close to port too, what a tragedy.

Acc. to the cruise line it hit a reef much further out. When they saw that they couldn't contain the water coming in, the captain headed for land to beach the ship. That probably saved very many lives (+4000 on board, 3 dead, 60 missing). Whether the initial impact was due to negligence will be found out later, I guess...

The cause of that could be, that the ship was stuck on the rocks. As water poured in, the rocks levered/fulcrumed the ship onto the side it ended up on?

Read my posting gain. It struck a rock far from its final location. It was beached by the crew to avoid sinking.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-...like-scene.html

Amazing image of rock lodged in the hull:

Serious navigation error, that it a huge rock stuck in the hull. Can imagine salvaging a ship this large
after running it aground will be monumental undertaking. Mega buck loss is a serious understatement.

Cap't said it was a reef that didn't appear on the maps... - Go figure.

Don't huge vessels like these have forward-scanning sonar? They should!

The original Poseiden Adventure is a better fit as a movie.

Captain says that it was not on his chart. We'll need to wait for the investigation, to learn if that's true.

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